Wednesday, May 07, 2008

I really enjoyed Robert Walsh's recent MormonTimes.com story about Ronald McClain, an active Latter-day Saint who used to be active with the Black Panthers. A wonderful example of a proactive, positive approach to overcoming the challenges we face in this mortal world. And a reminder of our need to overcome racial strife and harmful attitudes about others, as taught by President Hinckley and other leaders. Kudos, Brother McClain!

That reminds me. Back in the 1980s, Eldridge Cleaver, former Minister of Information for the Black Panthers, attended my Sunday School class in the University Ward in Berkeley. He never said much; he just sat in the back and listened. I understand that he eventually joined the Church.

Well, actually anon, that's the only thing Mormons use coffee for. We take exactly one cup of black coffee, add exactly 1 tbsps of cream to it and then hold it up to all black people wanting to join the church and if they're darker than the coffee, we don't let them in.

"In the early 1980s, Cleaver became disillusioned with what he saw as the commercial nature of mainstream evangelical Christianity and flirted with alternatives, including Sun Myung Moon's campus ministry organization CARP, and Mormonism. Cleaver was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and remained a member until his death in 1998."

He should be black enough for you. You people make me sick--I have friends that are black and such talk is very unbecoming of members of the Lords restored church.